Re: Don't configure BFD or TK or their dependencies on darwin

[Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>]

Geoff,

Not that it really matters, but if you had installed the XFree package 
from Fink, it would be pretty easy to get Tk to build.  At that point, 
MacOS X looks like any other X11 platform to the Makefiles...  So if 
you disable Tk in the Makefiles, all those folks who are panting to 
build a darwin cross arm (or whatever will build) version of Insight 
will be unnecessarily denied...

Of course AquaTk port has more problems than just Makefiles, you would 
have to upgrade the Tcl/Tk version in sources from 8.3.4 to 8.4.  But 
XFree seems to work pretty well, so if you don't mind the wrong L&F, 
you can actually get things working this way pretty easily.

Jim

On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 07:24  PM, Geoff Keating wrote:

> BFD has not (yet, he says hopefully) been ported to Darwin's mach-o
> format, and TK doesn't work because although there is a macos port the
> sources version doesn't have the right Makefiles.   So, this disables
> them allowing a combined-tree build on Darwin to work.  It also
> disables everything that relies on BFD or TK, which is a lot.
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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
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